Subject: Re: bug#33398: 26.1, netbsd-8; Hi Lock Faces, Hi Green B, default setting suggestion

From: Van L <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:32:24 +1100

>> 'darkgreen'
>>  was what we could agree on for `Hi Green B’ 
> 
> 'darkgreen' is almost black

That would be 'darkgreen' foreground on white background for `Hi Green B'.

>>> The same way as hi-yellow is defined to use yellow, and hi-green
>>> to use green, we can define hi-blue to use blue color, and
>>> hi-pink to use red color.  This will free cyan and magenta
>>> to use.
> 
> I guess there are no hi-magenta and hi-cyan faces because
> Isearch uses the magenta color for the current match and the
> cyan color for lazy-highlighted matches.
> 
> But OTOH, on TTY magenta and cyan are used from hi-pink and hi-blue,
> and there is no problem, so we can define two new hi-lock faces.

My experience of TTY in color is that there a combinations that are totally unreadable to my eye, such as, darkblue on black.

> 
>> The rainbow/artist’s coloring pencils theme for hi-faces is nicer to
>> have for the wm-frame-windowing environment.
> 
> emacs/lisp/textmodes/artist.el doesn't have many colors,
> and colors from the rainbow-delimiters packages are too dull.

The ROYGBIV palette for hi-lock-faces as theme.